Around what year did metal escalators start being used? Was the change fast or slow?

[Silent]

I was just watching this and it made me curious.

 

[Dstock7080]

Early-1960s and certainly the Victoria Line station areas had them installed at opening.
I believe Notting Hill Gate may have been an early install.

 

[The exile]

The change (if you mean replacement of the wooden ones) was slow (presumably just by attrition) until the Kings Cross fire.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Marylebone had wooden ones until very late, mid 2000s I think?

 

[hexagon789]

Didn't Greenford have the last wooden ones until about 10 years ago?

 

[The exile]

Didn't Greenford have the last wooden ones until about 10 years ago?

THink you might be right (though by now possibly a bit longer ago than that). They weren't under ground so wouldn't have come under the post-Kings Cross replacement requirements.

 

[Dstock7080]

Greenford removed 2015, replaced by incline lift

 

[STINT47]

Marylebone had wooden escalators in 2002 when I used the station semi regularly. I'm not sure of the exact date when they were replaced.

The old wooden escalators certainly had character and style but given modern safety standards they had to go.

At the London Transport Museum depot they have part of an old wooden escalator preserved if anyone is intrested in seeing at least part of how they were.

 

[edwin_m]

Marylebone had wooden escalators in 2002 when I used the station semi regularly. I'm not sure of the exact date when they were replaced.

The old wooden escalators certainly had character and style but given modern safety standards they had to go.

At the London Transport Museum depot they have part of an old wooden escalator preserved if anyone is intrested in seeing at least part of how they were.

I seem to recall that after the Kings Cross fire, the remaining wooden ones got metal side panelling, as the fire risk (the "trench effect") was more to do with this area than with the steps themselves.

 

[STINT47]

I seem to recall that after the Kings Cross fire, the remaining wooden ones got metal side panelling, as the fire risk (the "trench effect") was more to do with this area than with the steps themselves.

I think the sides were metal but cannot remember for certain.